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Apple's OS X Leopard In Depth

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the leopards-like-to-rest-in-trees dept.

jcatcw writes "Computerworld begins its Week of Leopard with an in-depth review and image gallery covering Apple's newest version of OS X. Is it worth the wait? Well, Yes. It trumps Vista, of course; the Finder, Quick Look and Cover Flow provide better functionality and eye candy; Time Machine is the biggest undelete ever and the restore function is one of the coolest things we've ever seen; it has iChat; and has lots of updates under the hood. The answer might be no if you're lacking in the hardware department - an FAQ on how to get ready for the new version will help."

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  1. no surprise there by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes. It trumps Vista, of course

    Is that really a big accomplishment? I mean, really? XP trumps Vista.

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    1. Re:no surprise there by Rufty · · Score: 5, Funny

      But Vista still beats WinME!
      (kinda...)

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  2. Re:I have to know the answer to this... by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac trolling fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while you attempt to rephrase a old troll from kottke.org. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be trolled more often, I'm rarely trolled once a year. If that.

    In addition, during this trolling attempt, I can not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even my assistant is straining to keep awake as you type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while waiting for your various trolls, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Wintel troll that has been posted faster than its Mac counterpart, despite Wintel users generally having less of a life, and more time to hang out on Slashdot. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs circles around you, and a small Perl script could out troll you most times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh troll is a superior troll.

    Mac troll addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to troll a Mac user over other faster, cheaper, more stable people.

  3. Re:Multiple Desktops by Mahjub+Sa'aden · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, a multiple desktop application made by Microsoft itself. Now I don't have to put up with half-assed, buggy, slow 3rd-party solutions! I can use a half-assed, buggy, slow 1st party solution!

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  4. Re:Computerworld Developers by Riquez · · Score: 5, Funny

    the ability to direct someone else to change system settings without having to give them a long GUI script along the lines of "Open this, click here, click there, this should say X, type Y"
    Indeed, the conversation would probably go like this..
    noidentity: OK, open up the terminal
    user: What? Is that in my Dock?
    noidentity:..erm ok, then go to HD > Applications > Utilities > Terminal
    user:OK
    noidentity:Now type defaults write com...
    user:Where do i write 'com', on my note pad?
    noidentity:no, no I mean type write
    user:I don't have a type writer
    noidentity:sigh. No, the word write, type the word write
    user:I think i typed it right, w r i g h t thats right, right?
    --- Time Passes ---
    noidentity:OK, now, using the keyboard on your computer, type the following words -boolean YES;
    user:Whats a hyphen?
    --- sound of gunshot ---
    user:Hello?
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